2/25/2018

Did it work

Community survey 2017-11-28

Are the garage prices good?

Are employees using it?

Program trends

Weekly patterns

  • Steady increase to peak on Saturday
  • Pattern likely mirrors businees revenue

Daily patterns

  • Spikes everyday at lunch & dinner
  • A lot more lunch outings on Friday
  • Is that a Monday happy hour peak?

💵 Talks

Average paid meter fee:

[1] 1.86

Total meter revenue:

[1] 51442.19

Estimated yearly revenue:

[1] 260640.1

Spatial distribution

  • Multispot bias

Normalized to average spaces

  • Average 5.6 spaces per multimeter
  • Balanced usage
  • Good design

But what about occupancy?

  • Hard to define
  • Comparing apples to mystery fruit
  • My strategy: interval overlap
    • Computationally intensive
    • Hours of calculations

Average occupancy per hour

Here we are today

  • City estimates they will take a loss due to secondary costs (vandalism, consultant)

  • Why did they cancel early?
    • On track for profit
    • Meters already paid for
    • What report did they see?

Program Improvements

  • Use SFpark as a template
    • Demand based flexible pricing (Lyft model)
    • Prices were capped
    • Sometimes cap $ wasn't enough
  • Increase price!
    • $1.80 vs $1.50 per hour
    • Who cares about $0.30?
    • 1st hour in garage remains free

Future Analysis

  • Better anlysis requires more data
    • Business revenues (same period)
    • Parking garage usage/revenues
    • Total cost (consultants, maintanence, repair)
    • Tickets written (same period)
  • Call for open data
    • Make ALL government data/reports available
    • Public input should be data driven not emotional
    • Best if data is available real-time
      • So the community can see it first hand
    • Hire data pros to help

Questions